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Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic prostate cancer CNS team. The team supports patients across Hampshire Hospital Sites including Basingstoke, Winchester and Andover.  

The band 6/7 clinical nurse specialist post dependant on experience will be required:

•   To work as an autonomous practitioner in delivering specialist clinical care for patients diagnosed with prostate cancer. 

•  To participate in the named prostate cancer nurse of the day rota. To triage GP referrals for suspected prostate cancer pathway.

•    To work with the prostate cancer CNS team in co-ordinating the diagnostic pathway for individuals referred with suspected prostate cancer, utilising clinical skills to achieve high quality care, in line with national and local standards. 
•    Providing evidence-based care for a caseload of patients alongside the lead prostate cancer consultant. To run nurse led active surveillance/ post prostate cancer treatment clinics. Assessing individuals remotely or face to face utilising various methods of communication. 
•    To act as a key link between the multidisciplinary team and the patient, ensuring communication across professional boundaries
•    To support with the cancer support worker’s clinic activity including workshops and assessment, of those patients enrolled on the prostate cancer personalised stratified follow up pathway. 

Main duties of the job

Prostate Cancer Clinical Nurse Specialist

To work as an autonomous practitioner in delivering specialist clinical care for patients diagnosed
with prostate cancer.
To work with the prostate cancer CNS team in co-ordinating the diagnostic pathway for individuals 
referred with suspected prostate cancer, utilising clinical skills to achieve high quality care, in line 
with national and local standards.
• Providing evidence-based care for a caseload of patients alongside the lead prostate cancer 
consultant. To run nurse led active surveillance/ post prostate cancer treatment clinics. Assessing 
individuals remotely or face to face utilising various methods of communication. 
To act as a key link between the multidisciplinary team and the patient, ensuring communication 
across professional boundaries
To support with the cancer support worker’s clinic activity including workshops and assessment, 
of those patients enrolled on the prostate cancer personalised stratified follow up pathway. 

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.